Re: Air Force shows how meaningless Ada waiver process is

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <353sdk$6vu@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>,
Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> wrote:
>srctran@world.std.com (Rhoda Metzger) writes:
>>    A recent Air Force article shows how meaningless the Ada Mandate is ...
>>Greg Aharonian
>
>I don't *care*.  I don't give a flying rat's dropping for the Ada Mandate.
>Could anyone who wants to argue either for or against US Governent Ada
>policies please restrict their postings to 'usa', not 'world'.  The Ada
>Mandate could only have hurt Ada companies if they had bet their businesses
>on sales to the US Government and ignored the rest of the world.  If that's
>what they did, then the problem is not the Mandate but parochialism.  The
>Ada market _should_ be global, and the Mandate isn't.

But the Ada companies _did_ bet their businesses on sales to the US 
government. That is exactly what this thread has been about, and goes
far in explaining why the good folks in Australia are stuck with the
same mediocre compilers, tools, and bindings as we are in the US.
It is exactly that parochialism that we all - including the folks in
other hemispheres - ought to be pestering these companies about. 

Mike Feldman
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